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Wizardry 5: Heart of the Maelstrom

Heart of the Maelstrom brings epic dungeon crawling to dizzying heights, challenging players with sprawling levels, fiendish enemies, and puzzles that seem to require a PhD in patience. The story hooks you just enough to make you care about your hapless adventurers before the game mercilessly punishes a single misstep. Magic is powerful, traps are cruel, and death is… inevitable. Yet, there’s an undeniable joy in mastering its systems, conquering impossible odds, and savoring that rare, hard-earned victory that feels like winning a lottery in a storm of pixelated chaos.
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Wizardry 5: Heart of the Maelstrom review

Computer Gaming World - Issue 5 (1989): "Designed in the tradition of the classic first three scenarios of Wizardry, Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom offers a mystifying, satisfying romp through the temple of La-La, the caverns beneath it, and, finally, into the abyss itself in search of the aged Gatekeeper who guards our plane of existence from the forces that swirl amid chaos. A return to the format of six adventurers questing through the darkest, dampest reaches of a cavern in search of world-salvation and monsters to whomp, Heart of the Maelstrom is, at once, both more simple than Return of Werdna and improved over the first three scenarios."

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Status: abandonware
Also published for: Commodore 64, Apple II, Commodore 128, SNES
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